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Back to the ’60s (and Fringes) in Brazil, New York Times, July 25, 2012

More Women Look Over the Counter for a Libido Fix, New York Times, July 2, 2012

A Patton Uses Film As a Tool to Help Veterans with PTSD, The Daily Beast, June 30, 2012

Life After the Games for Five Former Olympians (aka, “The Ice Pack”!), New York Times, June 18, 2012

Seeking Redress When Air Travel Goes Awry, New York Times, May 2, 2012

Leaving a Spouse Behind. For Good, New York Times, April 27, 2012

Failure is not an Option, New York Times, April 13, 2012

Hands Give a Lift, Now They Can Get One, New York Times, March 15, 2012

Expanding Efforts to Keep Cosmetics Testing from AnimalsNew York Times, December 28, 2011

VOWS: Audrey Smaltz and Gail Marquis, New York Times, November 27, 2011

A Hard Turn: Better Health on the Highway, New York Times, November 22, 2011

A Boom in Plastic Surgery for Those in the The Golden Years, New York Times, August 8, 2011

When a Child’s Anxieties Need Sorting, New York Times, June 23, 2011

With Anorexia, Total Recovery Can Be Elusive, New York Times, April 25, 2011

Tattoos as Makeup? Read the Fine Print, New York Times, Feb. 23, 2011

For Female-Aphrodisiac Makers, Efforts at Parity, New York Times, Sept. 13, 2010

Out with Dr. John, New York Times, August 20 2010

Working out with Tony Robbins, New York Times, August 6, 2010

Visiting Ellis Island with Eddie Izzard, New York Times, July 16, 2010

I Coulda Been a Contender! Psychology Today, July, 2010

For Better, For Worse, For B.M.I, New York Times, June 11, 2010

The Fat Man Walks Alone, Newsweek, March 25, 2010

Lasik’s Blurry Vision, Salon, January 25, 2010

Narrowing an Eating Disorder, New York Times, January 19, 2010

Don’t Get Pregnant, Elin! The Daily Beast, Dec. 14, 2009

Why Men Cheat, The Daily Beast, Dec. 10, 2009

Redefining Cured, Newsweek, Sept. 23, 2009

America’s War on the Overweight, Newsweek, Aug. 26, 2009 (with Kate Dailey)

Why Deathbed Marriages Endure, Newsweek, July 9, 2009

My Surreal Night with Michael Jackson, The Daily Beast, July 6, 2009

Threesome Marriages, The Daily Beast, May 7, 2009

Pressing Acai for Answers, New York Times, March 11, 2009

What’s Eating Our Kids? Fears About ‘Bad’ Foods, New York Times, February 25, 2009

Flush Those Toxins! Eh, Not So Fast, New York Times, January 21, 2009

The Enlightened Path, With a Rubber Duck, New York Times, December 31, 2008

It’s Botox For You, Dear Bridesmaids, New York Times, July 24, 2008

60-Plus, Ripped, and Natural Competitors, New York Times, April 3, 2008

Lasik Surgery: When the Fine Print Applies to You , New York Times, March 13, 2008

The Dating Coach Is In ($125/Hour), New York Times, September 27, 2007

Shades of Truth: An Account of a Kabul School Is Challenged, Village Voice, April 29, 2007

Communal Yoga Mat: Beware of Germs, New York Times, July 27, 2006. Downward Dog. Staph Infection. Namaste.

VOWS: Lola Enders and Walter WeilNew York Times, March 14, 2004

The Pissed-Off Muse, Salon, July 6, 1999

Big People on Campus, New York Times, November 26, 2006

In a new academic field, is Rosanne Barr’s weight worth 3 credits?

The String That Binds, The Village Voice, August 11, 2004

The Kabbalah Center wants your heart and your money.


Survivor Meets Millionaire, and a Show Is Born, New York Times, October 19, 2003

If there’s one thing Mark Burnett, the executive producer of “Survivor” and “The Restaurant,” has learned in his decade in television, it is this: never let an opportunity slip away.


Girls with Guns, New York Post, August 18, 2002

Leslie Entin never planned on packing heat.  Not as a kid growing up in Queens, not as vice president of Selection de Givenchy in Manhattan and certainly not after giving birth to her daughter Mia, who’s now 5.

Four Weddings And a Registry, New York Times, May 18, 2003

I have four weddings to attend this summer. My friends are thrilled about their pending ceremonies, but they seem equally excited, if not more so, about the gift registries.

A Hotel Stephen King Might Find Just Right, New York Times, July 23, 2002

For the weary business traveler, the new executive retreat and inn on the old Berry Hill plantation here has it all: meeting rooms, a fitness center, a dining room with world-class cuisine, a swimming pool, tennis courts…And ghosts. Lots of ghosts.

High-Tech Philanthropy in a Low-Tech Guatemalan Village, New York Times, June 4, 2000

It is an early evening on a hazy spring night, and a group of children are gathered on the shores of Lake Atitlán, eagerly awaiting the visit from Karin Stahl.

Can ‘Neurobics’ Do for the Brain What Aerobics Do for Lungs?, New York Times, October 3, 1999

Cognitive calisthenics aim to build quick wits.

I Want to Be a Chairborne Ranger: Boot Camp for the Office, New York Times, May 24, 1998

It’s Thursday afternoon, the rain is rattling rooftops and workers from the Vandor Corporation are huddled in a tent in the middle of nowhere, dressed in Army fatigues and combat boots.